react-native-sync-tasks

🚀 SyncTasksManager (JSI)

SyncTasksManager is a native JSI-based library for React Native that allows you to manage and execute background sync tasks (such as periodic API polling) efficiently from JavaScript, while delegating the actual execution to the native layer for better performance.

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⚙️ Features

• 🔁 Periodic HTTP polling with configurable interval
• 📡 Callback on data reception or error
• 🧵 High-performance task execution via JSI
• 🧠 Centralized task management (start/stop all tasks)
• ✅ Seamless integration with native modules (C++/JSI)
• ✨ Built-in response deduplication using response body hash — avoids redundant onData calls if the response has not changed

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📦 Installation

npm install react-native-sync-tasks

Don’t forget to run pod install for iOS if using CocoaPods.

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🛠️ Usage

import { createTask, SyncTasksManager } from 'react-native-sync-tasks';

type TData = {
  userId: number;
  id: number;
  title: string;
  body: string;
};

const task = createTask<TData>({
  config: {
    url: 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1',
    // 2000ms / default 1000ms
    interval: 2000, 
    // headers optional
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Accept': 'application/json',
    },
  },
  // { body: TData, status_code: number }
  onData: (data) => {
    console.log('DATA', data);
  },
   // { error: string, status_code: number }
  onError: (error) => {
    console.log('ERROR', error);
  },
});

SyncTasksManager.addTask(task);
SyncTasksManager.startAll();
...
// stop all tasks
SyncTasksManager.stopAll();
// or stop only 1 task
task.stop()

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🔍 API

createTask<T>(props: CreateTaskParams<T>): Task

Creates a background task that will periodically fetch data from the specified URL.

Params:

Name	Type	Description
config	{ url: string; interval: number; headers?: Record<string, string> }	HTTP polling configuration
onData	(data: { body: T, status_code: number }) => void	Callback when data is successfully received
onError	(error: { error: string; status_code: number }) => void	Callback when request fails (optional)

Under the hood, the task stores a hash of the last response body. If the newly fetched response is identical (hash matches), the onData callback will not be triggered.

Task

Represents an individual background sync task.

Methods:

• start(): void — Manually start the task
• stop(): void — Stop the task
• isRunning(): boolean — Check if the task is currently running

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SyncTasksManager

A global task manager for controlling multiple tasks at once.

Methods:

• addTask(task: Task): void — Add a single task
• addTasks(tasks: Task[]): void — Add multiple tasks
• startAll(): void — Start all registered tasks
• stopAll(): void — Stop all running tasks

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📄 License

MIT

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